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Rating
4/5
Summary
Hotjar provides Product Experience Insights about your website that show how users behave and what they feel strongly about, so product teams can deliver real value to them.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Pros
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Intuitive dashboards
- Great filtering
- Possibility to tag elements
- Helpfull support
- Automatic form tracking
- User feedback surveys
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
- Starts free when client of Cloudflare
- Very easy to setup
- Server log additional metrics
- Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
- Funnels could be improved
- You run into credit limit quite fast
- Limited free plan
- Limited features
- Might track high amounts of bot traffic
- Limited metrics
- Cannot exclude own visits
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| Starter | €39 p/m |
| Growth | €129 p/m |
| Business | €259 p/m |
| Pro | €499 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
30 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
10
1
10
User Seats
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
Account Security
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
Data Processing
Data Center Locations
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United Kingdom
- United States
Software Hosting
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
Data Ownership
Hotjar
Mouseflow
Statcounter
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
12 months
Unlimited*
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
through integrations
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
Export recording meta data
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Statcounter uses cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via web hook
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Custom tagging of recordings
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
Support Options
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community